Tap to explore
Human faces are unrepeatable monuments that contain stories, experiences, emotions, fears, loves, sorrows and joys. Nino Migliori photographed 596 faces of women and men, in the light of a match. They are friends, or friends of friends, who have visited him from 2016 to 2021 in his studio in via Elio Bernardi, 6 in Bologna.
Federica Muzzarelli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
In this work, the gestural element is once again highlighted. Time is marked by the burning of the wooden stick while the matter is represented by the face reflecting the light.
Elisabetta Sgarbi (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
They are portraits of human interiority manifested through light and shadow, black and white.
Lin Liu (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
The lit match, which Nino holds in his hand and moves at different speeds around the subject's face as he photographs him, becomes the only reference to the outside world, to the passing of time.
Interview (July 2021) by Alessandro AmanteFondazione Nino Migliori
With the light of the match, he seems to reach the origins of the perceptive act of aesthetics. In his search for the image in the dark, there is a return to the generative principle of art, to when the cavemen of the Upper Palaeolithic drew and engraved in stone the shapes of nature. By the light of lanterns, they moved the shadows of rocks inside the caves, animating the space and the images, in an act of transgression, as Georges Bataille wrote, full of wonder and amazement.
Alessandra D'Innocenzo (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Alessandra D'Innocenzo
In the dark with the flame, he searches for the slightest emotional nuances in the subject's face, in order to capture them in the photograph. Migliori's portraits are portraits of inwardness, which manifest themselves through light and shadow, through black and white.
Alessandro Bergonzoni (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Alessandro Bergonzoni
When he finishes the portrait, there is a moment of suspension that lasts few seconds which precedes the artificial light that fills the room. In that brief moment of waiting in the dark, we feel suspended, leaving the dimension of a magical ritual to return to one's own time.
Alessandro Fini Zarri (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Alessandro Fini Zarri
Next to the chair where subjects pose, there is a large plate with hundreds of consumed matches, those used by Migliori over the years to capture these portraits.
The whole of them creates a single face that contains all the previous ones. A final portrait, which reveals the memory of the many suspensions collected by Migliori over the years, through the light and the material of things.
Ascanio Kurkumelis
Barbara Cuniberti (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Barbara Cuniberti
Daniela Depietri (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Daniela Depietri
Giovanni Gastel (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Giovanni Gastel
Jacopo Benassi (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Jacopo Benassi
Leonida Fini Zarri (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Leonida Fini Zarri
Lin Liu (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Lin Liu
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
Maria Sole Confortini (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Maria Sole Confortini
Mario Cucinella (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Mario Cucinella
Martina Fini Zarri (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Martina Fini Zarri
Massimo Minini (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Massimo Minini
Maurizio Marinelli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Maurizio Marinelli
Nicola Bedogni (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Nicola Bedogni
Nicola Martelli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Nicola Martelli
Philip Rylands (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Philip Rylands
Pio Tarantini (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Pio Tarantini
Elisabetta Sgarbi (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Elisabetta Sgarbi
Enrica Viganò (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Enrica Viganò
Federica Muzzarelli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Federica Muzzarelli
Francesca Buscaroli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Francesca Buscaroli
Joe Oppedisano (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Joe Oppedisano
Laura Leonelli (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Laura Leonelli
Lucia Miodini (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Lucia Miodini
Luisa Valentini (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Luisa Valentini
Marta Santacatterina (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Marta Santacatterina
Nina Truant (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Nina Truant
Paola Giovetti (July 2021) by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Paola Giovetti
Exhibition
Nino Migliori
Via Elio Bernardi, 6
Museo Civico Archeologico Bologna
1-31 luglio 2021
General Coordinator
Alessandra D’Innocenzo
Promoted by
do ut do
Fondazione Nino Migliori
In Partnership with
Museo Civico Archeologico Bologna
Cineteca Bologna
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue published by Immedia Editrice, Arezzo
Texts: Elisabetta Sgarbi, Eugenio Lio, Ascanio Kurkumelis, Domenico De Masi, Gianluca Riccio
Editorial coordinator: Roberto Rossi
Image optimization: Antonella Minzoni
Printed by: Opigraf, San Giustino (PG)
